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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle on the Pampas. Deep in the heart of the pampas, insurgent army units led by Brigadier General Dalmiro Felix Videla Balaguer-until recently a well-regarded Peronista-swept into the rail center of Córdoba, Argentina's third biggest city (pop. 350,000). Two Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco...
...problem that must be left to the people of the local districts to solve," said Governor Orval E. Faubus. Four of the state's 228 interracial school districts are integrating this fall, moving 49 Negro children in, along with about 2,170 whites. Little Rock (pop. 102,213) will integrate its 24% Negro student population in the high schools in 1957, the junior high schools in 1958. The University of Arkansas held its first integrated summer session this year...
DELAWARE: Grade C. In Wilmington (pop. 110,356), 13 city schools will integrate this fall; 900 Negro students will attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...
KENTUCKY: Grade B Plus. Governor Lawrence Wetherby and his education officials promise to enact the Supreme Court mandate. Out of 224 school districts, including that of Lexington, 20 or 25 will integrate this fall. Louisville (pop. 369,129), where Jim Crow barriers are fast crumbling, will integrate in 1956. Segregation bars are down at all the state colleges and most private colleges and universities...
Neither Peru (pop. 9,300,000) nor Ecuador (pop. 3,400,000) can really afford to spend millions of dollars for warplanes, but a combination of alarm and national pride holds down public complaints in the two countries...